To set priorities for livestock health policy, such as funding for veterinary health interventions and planning for curbing the burden of livestock diseases, it is necessary to have accurate data on the prevalence of livestock diseases in India. With an increase in submission of research articles, the value of systematic review and meta-analysis for summarizing the results is greatly acknowledged. Meta-analysis is a statistical method that combines and synthesizes multiple studies and integrates their results.
Bioinformatics is the application of computational technology to handle the rapidly growing repository of information related to molecular biology. It is particularly useful for managing and analyzing large sets of data, such as those generated by the fields of genomics and proteomics.